Timelines
What does BCE stand for?
Before Common Era
Someone who investigates the past by digging up objects left by earlier societies and civilisations
Archaeologists
What theory explains how the First Nations people migrated to Australia?
Out of Africa Theory
What is the definition of a primary source
How do we conserve the past?
Museums
Which date is older: 3486BCE or 845CE
3486BCE
Chronological Order
Found on walls and caves that tell us about Ancient Australia
What is the definition of a secondary source
Something created after the time by someone who was not there
What might damage the past?
Natural disasters; humans
What is the century for the date: 279 AD
3rd Century AD
Distinct layers of materials beneath the ground and built up over time - is the definition of which course term?
Stratigraphy
Rubbish from eating shellfish and other food gathered over time
Shell Middens
Primary source
What is the case study we are focusing on when looking at historical conservation?
Pompeii
Put these dates in chronological order: 3738BCE, 3492CE, and 382AD.
3738BCE, 382AD, and 3492CE
Extinct species of large animals in Ancient Australia
Mega-Fauna
Artefacts use by archaeologists to determine how skilled a civilisation was
Stone tools
Primary source
How was Pompeii destroyed
Volcanic Eruption
Put the following dates in chronological order: 457AD, 8294AD, 78AD, 908BC
908BC, 78AD, 457AD, and 8294AD
Refers to the time from when people began to create written records up to c.500 CE
Ancient
What are the names given to the two earliest human remains to be found in Australia?
Mungo Man and Mungo Woman
Is a newspaper article a primary or secondary source?
Secondary source
How are we preserving Pompeii?
Artefacts behind glass; ropes to stop humans, crows to stop bird poo